My favourite book on the Golden Age of Cricket is A A Thomson's Cricket - The Golden Ages.. Its a lovely book.

Nothing Thomson wrote was anything less than lovely, but this one I found to be well below the gold standard he struck in the likes of Odd Men In and Cricket My Pleasure. It has probably the same problem as Hirst and Rhodes, in that its author was a far more gifted rambler than he was a plotter or a chronologist. Much like Robertson-Glasgow and Harry East, in fact, he was at his best when he was at his freest.

If you manage to read all this you dont need more reading on Trumper although their are beautiful pieces of prose on his batting by others including Cardus and Batchelor.

Nothing Thomson wrote was anything less than lovely, but this one I found to be well below the gold standard struck in the likes of Odd Men In and Cricket My Pleasure. It probably suffers the same problem as Hirst and Rhodes, in that its author was a far more gifted rambler than he was a plotter or a chronologist. Much like Robertson-Glasgow and Harry East, he was at his best when he was at his freest.

The latter being criminally underrated.

Cant say I disagree with much of that. I still cant recall anything I have read on the Golden Age, large enough to be the subject of a book, which is better. There are plenty of good articles of course.

Mike Down's biography of MacLaren and Simon Wilde's of Ranji both give a flavour of the Golden Age that books that deal solely with the cricket don't - they're far from the only ones but are possibly the best

Mike Down's biography of MacLaren and Simon Wilde's of Ranji both give a flavour of the Golden Age that books that deal solely with the cricket don't - they're far from the only ones but are possibly the best

Keep meaning to read Wilton's book - I've read Ellis's and once tried to read "Life Worth Living" but couldn't get on with it

Must also pick up a copy of the biography of Mrs Fry who I hear was just as mad as he was

I quite enjoyed LwL, but although I loved the Wilton effort I was annoyed that he did not show a photo of a young Mrs Fry who he wrote was a very pretty. But yes they must have been at the best different

I quite enjoyed LwL, but although I loved the Wilton effort I was annoyed that he did not show a photo of a young Mrs Fry who he wrote was a very pretty. But yes they must have been at the best different

did he have any photograph of Mrs. Fry, even at old age? Willing to relax the rules a little bit here....

Just did a quick count of the reviews we now have on the site, and it came to 178. I can still remember asking James if we could start a book review section. He told me I had to come up with at least six reviews, which was fair enough, you can't start a section with just one